Timeline for Do magical items have a school of magic associated with them?
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| Jun 22 at 9:15 | history | edited | Carcer | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 21 at 3:43 | comment | added | ProphetZarquon | I ask, mostly because I wonder if the PHB school descriptions, would be worth mentioning in this Answer, for DMs who do wish to assign schools? Also, I think the Answer could be even better if it explicitly stated (perhaps with a subheading) that "by RAW, the Detect Magic spell will only show that an item is magical". | |
| Jun 20 at 9:55 | comment | added | Carcer | @ProphetZarquon that schools of magic sidebar and your own judgement are all that 5e offers you if you want to start assigning schools to magic items. You could also refer to previous editions describing the same or similar items. But yes, the RAW is that detect magic will only show that a magical item is, in fact, magical, and offers no more information than that. | |
| Jun 19 at 18:20 | comment | added | ProphetZarquon | By RAW, would Detect Magic only reveal that an Amulet of Proof against Detection and Location is magical, with no school to reveal? (abjuration/divination/etc) | |
| Jun 19 at 18:13 | comment | added | ProphetZarquon | For example, are "The Schools of Magic" per PHB p203, worth referring a DM to, if they are trying to assign a school to an item? | |
| Jun 19 at 17:53 | comment | added | ProphetZarquon | Is there any rule of thumb we could use, in determining the school for items that don't cast a specific Spell? For instance, is any school associated with the creation of magic items? Or, does a particular passage describe the schools\categories themselves, such that we could use that text to infer? Further, if magic items do not have a school associated by RAW, what would Detect Magic report about an item such as an Amulet of Protection? | |
| Nov 18, 2020 at 3:37 | vote | accept | Miles Bedinger | ||
| Feb 13, 2019 at 23:35 | history | edited | Carcer | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 13, 2019 at 23:24 | comment | added | Carcer | @RyanThompson in that specific example I would probably rule that a Robe of Eyes is divination magic (which it is in 3.5e, too) and that an Amulet of Proof against Detection and Location or use of the Nondetection spell would prevent it being effective against the warded subject, yes. It's definitely a ruling on my part, though, not one supported by the RAW. Generally I'm on board with the idea of there being such mechanical interactions, I think it makes the rules of magic more consistent and interesting. | |
| Feb 13, 2019 at 23:17 | comment | added | Ryan C. Thompson | When you give an item an associated school of magic, do you allow that to have mechanical implications with effects that interact with that school (e.g. saying that the amulet blocks the sight of the Robe of Eyes as in the example)? | |
| Feb 13, 2019 at 23:13 | history | answered | Carcer | CC BY-SA 4.0 |